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Word: sexe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regards England and Poland. . . . While I did not wish to try to deny that persecutions occurred (of Poles also in Germany) the German press accounts were highly exaggerated. He had mentioned the castration of Germans. I happened to be aware of one case. The German in question was a sex maniac who had been treated as he deserved. Hitler's retort was that there had not been one case, but six. . . . I contested every point and kept calling his statements inaccurate but the only effect was to launch him on some fresh tirade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blue Book: Legman | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...today as in ancient Egypt, where diet-wise physicians cured thousands of cases with liver. Few persons realize that vitamin A is the most important of all vitamins for proper tooth formation in growing children, and for resistance to infection. It is also vital for healthy tissue development of sex organs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vitamins | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...apart. He suspected that children of these susceptible families might have inherited unusually thin nose linings, easily penetrated by the polio virus. So he decided to set up "virus barriers" of tough new cells in the nasal membranes of monkeys by injecting them with tiny doses of the female sex hormone oestrogen, which, for some strange reason, stimulates cell growth in nose linings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polio Clues | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...wife Mary (Norma Shearer), her cattish friend Sylvia Fowler (Rosalind Russell), who makes sure that Mary knows about Stephen's carrying on with a perfume salesgirl, and the girl, Crystal Allen (Joan Crawford). Mary's consequent trip to Reno introduces her to many another specimen of her sex, notably a fat U. S. countess (Mary Boland) with a crush on a cowboy named Buck, and Sylvia Fowler's own marital Nemesis, gay but tenacious Show-girl Miriam Aarons (Paulette Goddard). The drama of The Women is the effort of a good woman to adjust herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 11, 1939 | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...seem in other respects more effective organisms than fish with intact brains. [They] . . . respond to food more quickly ... exhibit much greater vigor in flight reactions, exhibit less caution. . . . The operation seems to improve their personalities, but their social relations are completely lost." Fishman Noble also noted that the sex glands of partially de-brained fish degenerate and they lose interest in breeding. When pituitary hormones are injected the fish swim out in search of mates again, although they no longer hatch eggs in the same seasons as the rest of their friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fish Society | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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